Gun Safety Attorney To Lead NJ Firearms Enforcement Office

By Matt Perez

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport has appointed a former senior director of affirmative litigation at the nonprofit Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to serve as the next director of the Statewide Affirmative Firearms Enforcement Office.

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Drugstores Beat Sun Pharma's $10M Racketeering Suit

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge threw out Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.'s suit against a group of pharmacies alleging they engaged in a criminal, years-long racketeering scheme that resulted in it paying more than $10 million in refunds for short-dated pharmaceutical products, ruling that the pharmacies were improperly joined together.

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Geico Says NJ Top Court Upends 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling

By Danielle Ferguson

Geico urged a New Jersey federal court to reject medical clinics' bid to dismiss remaining claims in a lawsuit alleging they fraudulently billed no-fault patients, saying that a recent state supreme court ruling bolsters the insurer's argument that complex insurance fraud claims do not belong in arbitration.

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NJ Judge Sends Exxon Retail Voting Program Suit To Texas

By Sarah Jarvis

A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday transferred to Texas a police pension fund's proposed class action against Exxon Mobil Corp. over the oil giant's first-of-its-kind retail shareholder voting program, finding the case does not have a strong enough connection to New Jersey.

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Ex-Taro Exec Slips Some Generics Price-Fixing Claims

By Carla Baranauckas

A Connecticut federal judge gave a former Taro Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. marketing executive a partial victory in generic drug price-fixing litigation, tossing several claims by state attorneys general but allowing others to proceed after finding that a jury could conclude he joined certain conspiracies.

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Summer Camp Owner Accused Of $13M COVID Relief Fraud

By Hilary Russ

Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that 26 summer camps illegally reaped more than $13 million from a COVID-19 relief program after one of their now-bankrupt owners allegedly "repeatedly lied" on loan documents.

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Judge Concerned About Misinformation In RealPage Case

By Isaac Monterose

A Tennessee federal judge has instructed a settlement administrator in the rent price-fixing litigation against RealPage and others to send out new notices informing eligible class members they have not been left out of deals worth more than $359 million, finding counsel representing intervenors in the case may have wrongfully told parties they've been excluded.

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Lupin Beats Vertex's Patent Suit Over Cystic Fibrosis Drug

By Theresa Schliep

A Delaware federal court has rejected Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s suit accusing Lupin Ltd. of infringing patents covering a cystic fibrosis treatment, with a judge saying Monday that Lupin's planned generic doesn't have the specific concentration of the drug covered by the patents.

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Canadian Insurer Escapes Subpoena In NJ Malpractice Row

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey state judge nixed a subpoena served on a Canadian insurer, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to compel a foreign nonparty to produce documents or testimony in Canada in a legal malpractice suit stemming from an $18 million judgment against a trucking company.

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USPS Violated Block On Mail Ballot Rulemaking, Judge Says

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge who ordered the U.S. Postal Service earlier this month to stop work on a new rule restricting delivery of some mail-in ballots concluded Tuesday that the USPS flouted her pencils-down nationwide injunction by continuing to develop and promulgate the new rule.

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What To Know As Legal Duty To Consider AI Takes Shape

While the U.K. Jurisdiction Taskforce’s recent statement on liability for artificial intelligence harms is nonbinding for both U.K. and U.S. lawyers, it highlights the importance of being able to distinguish between the availability of a tool and a professional obligation to use it, say Jonny Frank and Michael Costa at StoneTurn.

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Firm Revenue Climbs 12.4% In First Half Of 2026

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Record billing rate gains, strong demand and increased productivity fueled a successful start to the year for the legal industry, according to a report released Tuesday.

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Florida AG Slams Bar Complaint Against DHS Counsel

By Madison Arnold

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote to the executive director of the Florida Bar to criticize a recent complaint made to the bar against James Percival, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for attacking judges.

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Legal Watchdog Lodges Bar Complaint Against Jeanine Pirro

By Hailey Konnath

The Legal Accountability Center said Tuesday that it filed a bar complaint against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, claiming that she abused her position to unjustifiably target Democratic lawmakers after they released a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community that it's their duty to refuse unlawful orders.

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6th Circ. Says Judge Can't Escape Teen Mock Arrest Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Sixth Circuit panel on Monday allowed to proceed a Michigan federal lawsuit filed against a Detroit judge who handcuffed a 15-year-old student and subjected her to a mock trial after she fell asleep in his courtroom, ruling that judicial immunity does not protect him.

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Watchdog Wants NY Judge Ousted Over Retaliatory Suit

By Rose Krebs

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined a state judge should be removed from office for filing a retaliatory defamation suit against an eye-care worker who had lodged an ethics complaint over the judge refusing to wear a mask in an office in 2021.

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NY Times Says EEOC Dragging Feet On Anti-White Bias Info

By Grace Elletson

The New York Times Company has sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming the anti-discrimination watchdog flouted federal law by failing to respond to requests for records of communications with conservative legal groups and agency efforts to investigate claims of bias against white workers.

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Colo. Judge Ships $8.3M Messner Reeves Fraud Suit To Utah

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge granted a motion Monday from law firm Messner Reeves LLP to move a lawsuit accusing the firm of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme to Utah after finding the venue was the proper forum to litigate the claims.

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Tort Report: Mass. Jury Delivers Record Amazon Crash Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A record personal injury verdict against Amazon in a crash case and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler's upcoming sex abuse trial lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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